Bureau of Mines

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.

Example Sentences

Bureau of Mines as part of a strategy to increase stockpiles of minerals crucial for national defense.

From Los Angeles Times

In a 1956 newspaper article titled “You can be a week-end gem hunter,” Thomas H. Miller, director of Bureau of Mines, argued that “sooner or later, one of these rockhounds is going to make a ‘find’ of one of the many important strategic minerals, such as manganese, or nickel, or beryllium, which we desperately need.”

From Los Angeles Times

Claude Prepetit, a geologist and engineer with Haiti’s Bureau of Mines and Energy, told Radio Caraibes that smaller earthquakes that occurred earlier this year in southern Haiti led to the bigger one that struck Tuesday.

From Seattle Times

New Earth MRI-funded survey work in these areas will help define the full extent of these resources, says Faulds, who directs Nevada's state Bureau of Mines and Geology.

From Salon

He spent the next dozen or so years working as a research chemist for oil companies and for the United States Bureau of Mines.

From New York Times